Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Vidal takes aim and why the web makes us dumb (Canberra Times)
Welcome, to a hopefully weekly blog which will take a wide global view of the books and information worlds.
- Celebration caps poetry unit at Crab Orchard School (Marion Daily Republican)
MARION — From Shakespeare to Silverstein, Crab Orchard fifth-graders spent the last few weeks learning the poetic craft. On Friday, the students captured an attentive audience — which included local celebrities from CIL-FM — with their eloquence.
- 'Happy in a foreign world' - BBC News
As the Today programme begins a major series examining the care of the elderly in the UK, one listener spoke to her mother about life in her care home. Joan Davey has the sunniest of demeanours. She laughs a lot, loves listening to classical music ...
- Kent-based indie-folk band Lazy Susan gets entergized - Cleveland Plain Dealer
There's no procrastination in Kent act Lazy Susan's future as the indie folk rock seeks a larger audience for its diverse material. Also, Rubber City goth-punk act Flowers in Flames blooms this spring while Moko Bovo reunites for a Beachland gig and ...
- Be afraid - Independent
Sligo talisman Eamonn O'Hara in contemplative mood on the beach at Strandhill earlier this week as he and his team-mates prepare to travel to Castlebar to face Mayo for tomorrow's Connacht SFC semi-final A Sligo supporter visits a psychiatrist last ...
- Heal the World and Look Up to God -- New Book Reflects Deeply With ... - Primenewswire (press release)
Heal the World and Look Up to God -- New Book Reflects Deeply With ...Primenewswire (press release), CA - 1 hour agoA Conversation and Other Ruminations-Part II is a huge collection of essays, short stories, and poetry written deep from the the author's heart, ...
- Hayfork Library storytime - The Trinity Journal
Hayfork Library storytimeThe Trinity Journal, CA - 53 minutes agoThere is a tender ending when both become old and there is nothing left to give but love (and the tree is happy). Other stories and poetry will continue the ...
- Pumped up through a volume of music (Newsday)
THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC TO GIRLS, by Lavinia Greenlaw. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 208 pp., $23.
- R.E.M. roars back to fighting form at the Bowl - Orange County Register
Some nights – most nights, really – you trust yourself. You'll ask whoever you brought and assorted acquaintances who turn up throughout the evening what they thought of the show, but you're just making chit-chat, not soliciting input. Thursday ...
- C. D. Wright's 'Rising, Falling, Hovering' - International Herald Tribune
A quick glance at C. D. Wright's resumé confirms her position as a major American poet - a dozen critically praised books; the requisite laundry list of awards, grants and prizes; a day job teaching literature at Brown University - but in her case ...
- Flight 232 survivor and statue icon graduates - Sioux City Journal
SIOUX CITY -- That little boy from Colorado featured in the big statue down by the river isn't so little any more. He is, in fact, a recent college graduate, an aspiring journalist who plans to work for a major publisher in New York City after ...
- No-Maddz 'seh' most at Weekenz - Jamaica Gleaner
The No-Maddz poetry group, Oneil Peart and Sheldon Shepherd performing with Everaldo Creary who was on acting duties that night, took the house down repeatedly at Sunday's instalment of Seh Sup'm. Performing just before the open mic section, the two ...
- Bettina Buck in London (and Berlin) - ARTINFO
ARTINFOBettina Buck in London (and Berlin)ARTINFO, NY - 14 hours agoIn these sculptures Buck wrests poetry out of the commonplace and, employing what she calls “a kind of broken or less-than-fluent language or dialect,†...
- Speaker to examine environmental health threats today - Ithaca Journal
Sandra Steingraber will be presenting her speech “Contaminated without Consent: Environmental Threats to Human Health.†At 7:30 p.m. today in the Melvin Community Room at the Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 East Main Street, Trumansburg ...
- With All Their Love - Hartford Courant
As we pay tribute to mothers this Sunday, consider for a moment the unsung heroes of Mother's Day : greeting-card writers. They toil away all day, trying to fit the maximum amount of emotion into a few well-chosen words, just so you can sign your ...
|
|
Is Refinancing right for you?
Florida Mortgage
November 2007 Mortgage News
|